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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



1805 



Nut oblong. Calyx furrowed concen- 

 trically. (Smith and Don.) " Gathered by 

 Dr. Buchanan (who afterwards took the 

 name of Hamilton), at various places in 

 Upper Nepal, bearing fruit, in December, 

 1802. A very large tree, whose wood is 

 excellent. The branches, 2 or 3 together, 

 smooth. Leaves evergreen, rigid, exactly 

 like those of Q. glauca Thunb., but some- 

 what silky beneath, and less glaucous ; 

 the young ones very silky. Stipules 

 linear, hairy, longer than the footstalks, 

 deciduous. Male flowers in pendulous, 

 hairy, yellowish, shortish spikes, spring- 

 ing from the buds below the leaves, 

 whose scales are imbricated in 5 rows. 

 Female, from 3 to 6, in solitary, axil- 

 lary, upright, stalked, smooth spikes, 

 about the length of the footstalks. Calyx 

 of the female flowers globose, smaller 

 than hempseed ; composed of several 

 concentric imbricated layers, of which 

 the outermost is smooth and notched, the rest downy and entire. Germen 

 globose. Style very short and thick. Stigmas 3, obtuse. Acorns quite sessile 

 on the common flower stalk. Cup rather smaller than that of our British 

 oaks; entire and even at the edge; composed of 7 or 8 concentric, annular, 

 imbricated, crenate scales, externally silky. Nut ovate, acute, smooth, and 

 even, twice as long as the cup. The Parbutties call this tree Phullaat ; the 

 Nawars, Gushi, or Paca stringali. We find great reason to think it may be, as 

 Dr. Buchanan suspected, the same species with Thunberg's Q. glauca. The 

 leaves of his specimen show a slight degree of pubescence about the veins, 

 but have not the minute silkiness of ours." (Smith in Rees's Cyclopaedia.) 

 Professor Don has given us the same information respecting Q. Kamroopw 

 (which he is now disposed to refer to Q. annulata) as he did respecting the 

 referring of Q. oblongata to Q. lanata. In both cases, his specimens were 

 imperfect. He had named Q. Kamroopw in honour of " Kamroop, or, more 

 properly, Kamrup, a Brahmin, and a zealous collector for Dr. Wallich in 

 Gurwhal, or Garnwhal, a country situated to the north-west of Nepal." 

 There are plants of this species 10ft. high, against a wall in the Horticul- 

 tural Society's Gardens, and also in the front of a stove at Kew ; and, 

 under the name of Q. glauca, at Messrs. Loddiges's. Mr. Smith of Kew 

 informs us that it is decidedly hardier than Q. lanata. 



App. i. Oaks in British Gardens, not referable, wilh certainty, 



to any of the above Sections. 

 40. Q. TU'RNER/ Willd. Turner's Oak. 



Identification. Willd. Enum., 975. ; Baumz., p. 339. 



Synonymes. Q. h^brida Hort. ; Chene de Turner, Fr. ; Turnersche Eiche, Ger. 

 Engravings. Willd. Baumz., t. 3. f. 2. ; and ourftg. 1806., from a specimen taken from the tree in 

 the Horticultural Society's Garden. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves oblong, mucronate, dentate ; glabrous on both sides ; 

 somewhat wedge-shaped at the base. Branchlets hairy. ( Willd.) A tree, 

 growing to the height of 40 ft. or 50 ft. in 40 years, and retaining its foliage 

 till April or May, like the new Lucombe oaks. It is stated in Willdenow's 

 Baumzucht to be a native of Thibet ; but we have ascertained from Messrs. 

 Loddiges that it is a hybrid, which was raised about 1795, or before, by 

 Mr. Spencer Turner, in the Holloway Down Nursery, Essex, which was 

 founded by him about 1787, and which now no longer exists; and that the 

 plant at Berlin, which is kept in the conservatory there, was sent to Will- 



